Simples......
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BringbacktheP&P

Original Poster:

1,957 posts

233 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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where the fk did this bloody annoying word suddenly appear from?!? It seems to appear on every sodding thread I look at now and really, really pisses me off.

Don't even get me started on 'my bad' either.

Oh, and if you're thinking of replying to this thread with either 'simples' or 'my bad'....well Don't. Really, please, just don't.

Road Hog

2,658 posts

242 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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meerkat ad compare the market.com






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hfOt1qoALo


























































simples

Edited by Road Hog on Sunday 27th September 15:21

chr15b

3,467 posts

219 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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wiki said:
"Simple" is a term from contemporary mereology. A simple is any thing that has no proper parts. Sometimes the term "atom" is used, although in recent years the term "simple" has become the standard.
Simples are to be contrasted with atomless gunk (where something is gunky if it is such that every proper part has a further proper part). Necessarily, given the definitions, everything is either composed of simples, gunk or a mixture of the two. Classical mereology is consistent with both the existence of gunk and either finite or infinite simples (see Hodges and Lewis 1968).
Given a mereology containing the null individual no object other than the null individual would be simple.
(Simples is also a phrase used by the meerkat from the comparethemarket.com advertisement.)

Man-At-Arms

5,920 posts

208 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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pits

6,704 posts

219 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Yep, a word that when ever I hear someone say it or refer to those stting meerkats they go down in my estimations to "Pikey fks"

filthstreet

237 posts

222 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Surely it's been around much longer than that advert.

The Hypno-Toad

13,305 posts

234 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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One of the guys at work as it as his ringtone.........

And his texttone.........

And I'm going to kill him. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But I swear upon all that is holy I'm going to kill him......

And you know how I'm going to kill him? I'll shove his phone so far down his throat when it rings its going to tickle his prostate...




LukeBird

17,170 posts

238 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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The Hypno-Toad said:
And you know how I'm going to kill him? I'll shove his phone so far down his throat when it rings its going to tickle his prostate...
Are you going to bleed him of bodily fluids then? scratchchin

ChristianZS

2,640 posts

242 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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"I'm soo confused.com"

s.

Nuclearsquash

1,329 posts

291 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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compare the meerkat isa fantastic exercise in advertising, and if that makes me a pikey for liking them the up yours pits, and i would highly suggest you re-evaluate your own life for being so affected by an advert.

However the true pits of recent insurance adverts surely has to be "Go compare!"

Morningside

24,147 posts

258 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Simples...... BringbacktheP&P scratchchin Thats how I read the thread title anyhow.

Good advertising ploy, but now getting as annoying as:

Life is like a.
Hasta La Vis.
You are the weake.
Simples.
The frog advert.
MX5.





Edited by Morningside on Sunday 27th September 22:20

Parsnip

3,263 posts

217 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Morningside said:
Good advertising ploy,
I don't understand how - because you remember it? I sure as hell remember it, and I sure as hell won't go near their site because of it.

People who say it are generally the kind of people who need a good punch to the face.

ukwill

10,184 posts

236 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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we buy any car . com...

Morningside

24,147 posts

258 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Parsnip said:
Morningside said:
Good advertising ploy,
I don't understand how - because you remember it? I sure as hell remember it, and I sure as hell won't go near their site because of it.

People who say it are generally the kind of people who need a good punch to the face.
Ah, but it does work because you DO remember it. May not be any good but it works. I have used confused in the past but found a better deal at my local brokers.

Think Churchill - How many people phone them up because its 'funny' rather than shopping about.

LV = Love? Rather than London Victora.

LukeBird

17,170 posts

238 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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ukwill said:
we buy any car . com...
That advert drives me to distraction...

Not as bad as those fken injurylawyers4U ones... madmad

svm

293 posts

216 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Parsnip said:
I sure as hell remember it, and I sure as hell won't go near their site because of it.
Got to agree with you there.

But when you realise it's easy to wind someone up and get a rise out of them, it's shimples what to do really. whistle

Until then, I don't think i've ever used it

EDLT

15,421 posts

235 months

Sunday 27th September 2009
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Nuclearsquash said:
compare the meerkat isa fantastic exercise in advertising, and if that makes me a pikey for liking them the up yours pits, and i would highly suggest you re-evaluate your own life for being so affected by an advert.

However the true pits of recent insurance adverts surely has to be "Go compare!"
The joke at the end of the Go compare advert is great.

"He's only a tenor"

pits

6,704 posts

219 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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Morningside said:
Parsnip said:
Morningside said:
Good advertising ploy,
I don't understand how - because you remember it? I sure as hell remember it, and I sure as hell won't go near their site because of it.

People who say it are generally the kind of people who need a good punch to the face.
Ah, but it does work because you DO remember it. May not be any good but it works. I have used confused in the past but found a better deal at my local brokers.

Think Churchill - How many people phone them up because its 'funny' rather than shopping about.

LV = Love? Rather than London Victora.
Doesnt work very well, its Liverpool Victoria wink

clonmult

10,529 posts

238 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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Parsnip said:
Morningside said:
Good advertising ploy,
I don't understand how - because you remember it? I sure as hell remember it, and I sure as hell won't go near their site because of it.

People who say it are generally the kind of people who need a good punch to the face.
I remember it, and the advertising is definitely working.

Shame that the product is naff - tried it for my renewal, couldn't save me more than a few quid on the insurance, and that was for worse cover.

off_again

13,917 posts

263 months

Monday 28th September 2009
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As advertising goes, it works and it gets people remembering it and thinking about the service.

BUT, I use the insurance comparison sites once or twice, just to check I am getting a good deal. But I get the best deal direct. Aviva or Direct Line always give me the best quote and cover and DL have always been good to me in the past and treated me well when I needed them. So pretty impressed so far, but not with the comparison sites.

Now they are starting to do house insurance too - again, best price direct with Lloyds. Had to make a claim when my freezer broke! Wife finished the call in about 20 minutes flat and said that a transfer had been triggered for my claim to pay £145 for the lost food. How good is that? Maybe they all do that these days, but I have to think that the service level was good and quick and still cheaper than the comparison sites.

How much do people really pay for insurance? Makes me wonder...